LOL I remember my science teacher telling us the story about the mice in like 7th grade!
She said that no matter how many tails were cut off, no mouse was ever born without a tail... this was clearly evidence against evolution!
oh boy! and I actually believed it until I learned a little about genetics.
look, all the opening chapters of Genesis are not literal, scientific description of the world s creation. Chatolic tradition provides a different perspective. Following the insights of St. Augustine and others, it allows that Genesis employs figurative language, so it canot be cited as a scientific text. At the same time, however, the "proven facts of science" accapted by one generation may be rejected by later generations in their conclusions. Chatolik Church specifically rejects any scientific theories (such as that of Charls Darwin) which insist that evolution was the result of random forces rather then the intelligent design of a personal Creator. Such pretentious claims move beyond the limited of inquiry that is possible to science.
Given divine revelation as a whole, the Church teaches that a few fundamental thrusts about human origins canot be contradicted by scientific speculation:
- The entire universe, including the human race, is not the result of chance, but of God s puposeful, loving design
- Human beings are not simply more advanced animals; thes bear the image of God in a unique way
- Even if God may have created the bodies of the first humans through evolution, their souls, like all human souls, were immediately created by him at their conception
- All human beings share a single, historical ancesor, so they all have the same nature and origin, and belong to one human family
